[android-developers] Re: Unable to retrieve the GIVEN_NAME or FAMILY_NAME from database

Thanks for the reply. I agree the API doc is very ambiguous.

On Jul 30, 12:39 am, William Ferguson <william.ferguson...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> You appear to be using a combination of Android 1.5 and Android 2.0
> mechanisms.
> Ie passing Android 2.0 constants to an Android 1.5 mechanism.
>
> Android 1.5
>
> >         Uri uri = Phone.CONTENT_URI;
> > Phone.CONTACT_ID,
> > Phone.DISPLAY_NAME,
> > Phone.NUMBER,
> > Phone.TYPE, Phone.LABEL,
>
> Android 2.0
>
> > ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME,
>
> But I could be wrong. The ContactsContract provider is pretty unclear
> IMHO.
> I think you'll gain some mileage from:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1721279/how-to-read-contacts-on-an...
>
> On Jul 30, 7:47 am, j <jac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > While iterating through my contacts database, the firstName
> > (GIVEN_NAME) always returns an integer (0, 1, 2, ... 7) while the
> > lastName (FAMILY_NAME) always returns null.  I am running on HTC
> > Incredible.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> >         Uri uri = Phone.CONTENT_URI;
> >         String[] projection = new String[] {
> > Phone.CONTACT_ID,
> > Phone.DISPLAY_NAME,
> > Phone.NUMBER,
> > Phone.TYPE, Phone.LABEL,
> > ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME,
> > ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME
>
> > };
>
> >         Cursor managedCursor = mContext.getContentResolver()
> >               .query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
> >         if(managedCursor == null) {
> >             Log.w(LOG_TAG, "managedCursor null");
> >             return null;
> >         }
>
> >         while(managedCursor.moveToNext()) {
>
> >                 long contactId = managedCursor.getLong(
>
> > managedCursor.getColumnIndex(Phone.CONTACT_ID));
> >                 String name = managedCursor.getString(
>
> > managedCursor.getColumnIndex(Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
>
> >                 String firstName = managedCursor.getString(
>
> > managedCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME));//
> > getFirstNameFromId(contactId);
> >                 Log.d(LOG_TAG, "firstName: "+ firstName);
> >                 String lastName = managedCursor.getString(
>
> > managedCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME));//
> > getLastNameFromId(contactId);
> >                 Log.d(LOG_TAG, "lastName: "+ lastName);
>
> > }

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